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December 23, 2024

Letters from a Vanished Jewish Past

The Jane Austen of Hlusk.

In an elegy to the dying art of letter-writing, Cynthia Ozick presents a grand taxonomy of the genre, with examples stretching from Henry VIII and Lord Byron, to the advice column Abraham Cahan placed in the Jewish Daily Forward, to Ozick’s own correspondence with professors at Columbia and Yale. Herewith, her description of the “letter as loss.”

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